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An even better question is why do people go to college, expecting it to be a trade school? There is nothing wrong with CS curriculum. It's just not for everybo

• ravenstine 4y ago
  They expect it to be a trade school because it's so expensive that there needs to be some kind of payoff. Most people aren't the sort of elites that universities were once founded upon whom money was not much of a concern for. Like yeah, go to college and get enriched and all of that, but honestly, if one can be self enriched by taking courses a la carte online, then is it really worth to pay out the nose for a degree that has not much (and even dwindling) monetary return? For some, yeah, because of a level of prestige you get from having a degree. For other fields, not so much. No, people shouldn't take physics and then expect to become a pilot. On the other hand, computer science, which is not actually science but instead a fancy way of describing usage of computers, necessarily means applying algorithms and programming languages. If someone goes through an entire CS degree program but comes out with mostly knowledge that doesn't apply to real world usage of computers, well, what were they even taught in that case?
• scarface74 4y ago
  Because strangely enough, most people don’t spend tens of thousands of dollars to be a better citizen of the world. Most people have an insatiable addiction to food and shelter and need to be able to trade labor for money to support that addiction.